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  • Barcelona,  Boulevards,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014 /

    Who cares about pickpockets?

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    Skull of Glass at the London Science Museum

    September 27, 2016

    Lost Bag

    December 8, 2016

    Red Beam

    October 24, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Reasonable Privacy Expectation

    April 17, 2014 /

    There is something almost cinematic about this frame. The architecture dominates: a vast façade of marble and glass, its verticality emphasised by the tall, narrow windows, the symmetry broken only by the two small human figures at the bottom. They are dwarfed by the structure, physically and visually, and yet they animate the space just enough to draw our eye away from the grand design and towards the everyday. Compositionally, the image is measured and deliberate. The camera is held level, avoiding converging verticals, which is crucial in architectural photography. The placement of the figures — one ascending the stairs, the other absorbed in a phone — adds a natural,…

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    Handling the Fishnet

    October 28, 2014

    Avid Readers

    August 17, 2013

    Square Three

    June 20, 2014
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Which One?

    April 16, 2014 /

    The Abundance’s Paradox

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    A Cello’s Player

    February 8, 2015

    Hard Worker

    February 9, 2014

    Waiting To Board At Santa Margherita Ligure

    August 16, 2014
  • Airport,  Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Spring

    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014 /

    They’re close, but never been so distant

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    Urgent Calls Only

    May 15, 2017

    National Road Running Championships 2023 – Portraits

    June 28, 2024

    The Bystander

    February 5, 2018
  • Barcelona,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    The Bodyguard in Red

    April 13, 2014 /

    This frame happened in a square full of motion, but all I saw was this frozen pair: a woman checking a map, and her dog—a small, white, overdressed sentinel—standing squarely on duty. What amused me wasn’t just the dog’s outfit (hood up, leash taut, plaid trim), but the posture. Alert. Angled. Watching the flow of pedestrians like a security detail in fur. I made this image with the intention of isolating a moment within the broader current of urban transit. The pedestrian stream moves left to right—fast, disengaged, anonymous. Meanwhile, the woman and her dog form a perpendicular axis. They’re static. They interrupt the flow. That tension is what holds…

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    Das Feuerwehr

    April 17, 2018

    Behind the News

    June 25, 2013

    The Teleferic de Montjiuc

    May 28, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Too Busy to Enjoy the Life…

    April 12, 2014 /

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    Hanging News

    June 18, 2013

    Bad Luck at Heian Jingu Shrine

    December 15, 2025

    A Modern Nazca?

    December 4, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People

    Flashes’ Forgotten Powersuits

    April 11, 2014 /

    When I pressed the shutter, I wasn’t chasing irony. It emerged later, in the edit, when I realised this looked less like a street photo and more like a comic panel stripped of its ink—The Flash and Kid Flash mid-sprint, anonymous in civvies, caught in a blur between timelines, rushing to fix a multiverse misstep but forgetting the suits that gave them identity. The angle was deliberate. I tilted the frame to exaggerate imbalance, to underline the diagonal force of movement surging left to right. The grand stairway of Milano Centrale—the actual location—becomes a stage. Lines, shadows, steps: they all stretch and funnel speed. The architecture is static but theatrically…

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    Play It Again, Sam!

    April 13, 2017

    Mid-Morning Break at Place Jourdan

    March 24, 2014

    Duel Inside The Cage

    November 20, 2014
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Winter

    Quality Check. Try Before You Buy

    April 10, 2014 /

    This image was taken outside a Parisian bookstore, a moment as classic as it is current: a man stands in the entrance, thumbing through a photobook, absorbed but casual. It’s not staged—he didn’t even glance at the camera. He was too focused, as anyone who’s spent hours weighing the purchase of one more photography book will understand. His expression wasn’t about doubt; it was about judgment—quality check, plain and simple. The composition offered itself. Framed by the bookstore’s open door, the man becomes the central figure in a visual funnel, surrounded by vertical stacks of books, postcards, and prints. The image flattens space into layered density—foreground filled with titles, background…

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    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021

    Waiting For The Elections

    June 24, 2014

    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Social Control

    Mario Asks for it!

    April 9, 2014 /

    The political campaign for the European election is started. This is one of the posters showing the Democratic Party (PD) strategy: fooling the voters into thinking that PD cares about what its constituencies have to say…

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    Renovating Milan

    November 18, 2017

    Don’t They Drink Tea, Instead?

    December 27, 2016

    The Expired Film Series – Episode 1 – Kodak BW400CN – Dec. 2014 shot in June 2023

    July 21, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Street Photography

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014 /

    Seeing the world through the Street-Photographer’s eye makes you more aware of your surroundings both at a conscious and unconscious, Zen-like, level. A side-effect of this state is that you can exploit-it for personal safety when traveling in risky places, like big stations where pickpockets are doing their tricks.

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    Leaving Home

    December 5, 2014

    Deserved Rest

    March 21, 2021

    The Lost Garage

    July 8, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014 /

    On a brisk afternoon in Paris, the pavements fill with people moving at slightly different speeds, each carrying the traces of their own direction. What drew me to the scene was the convergence of three figures—unrelated to each other yet momentarily aligned—walking toward me with distinct rhythms and expressions. Their presence formed a kind of spontaneous procession, defined not by ceremony but by the simple momentum of city life. The woman on the left moved with purpose, her large green bag swinging in counterbalance to her stride. The scarf softened the sharp lines of her businesslike outfit, adding a touch of looseness to an otherwise structured silhouette. The woman on…

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    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016

    5 frames exploring the Sporting Gun Culture in Italy

    April 15, 2025

    Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf

    September 29, 2016
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Perfect Strangers

    April 5, 2014 /

    This was shot at a crossing in Brussels. Late afternoon, golden hour starting to lean into haze, and the kind of sidelight that makes the most mundane street scenes feel sculptural. I wasn’t looking for a story—I was just following the light. What I got instead was this: two people, frozen in proximity, framed by urban geometry and indifferent routine. They didn’t know each other. That much was clear. No shared glances, no body language suggesting connection. Just two people waiting for the light to change, locked in that brief, suspended moment before movement resumes. But visually, they worked in tandem—her neon green jacket, his mustard ochre coat, both cutting…

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    The Quest for Belgian Chocolate…

    April 11, 2017

    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014

    Welcome in the New (?) Year

    January 1, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Skating on Avenue Louise

    April 1, 2014 /

      The architecture of Avenue Louise is built to impress — symmetrical, imposing, wrapped in glass and concrete. It speaks the language of power, efficiency, and institutional gravitas. Yet here, cutting across the uniformity of its grid, a lone skateboarder defies gravity and symmetry alike. In mid-air, suspended between takeoff and landing, the young skater rewrites the function of space. This plaza wasn’t designed for movement like his — spontaneous, raw, unruly — yet it hosts it with unexpected grace. The stark concrete façade becomes a backdrop, not a boundary. This is the city as canvas, the act of skating as resistance and reinterpretation. While others walk briskly from meeting…

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    Frames for Sale at Via Margutta

    May 2, 2016

    In the backstage

    May 10, 2013

    Kristina Miller live@Teatro Marrucino

    February 21, 2022
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  Patisserie,  People

    Breakfast at Rue Brisemiche

    March 25, 2014 /

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    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    Leaving Home

    December 5, 2014

    Alfa (1750) … Dog

    July 25, 2015
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Restaurants&Bar

    Mid-Morning Break at Place Jourdan

    March 24, 2014 /

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    The Flying Dutchman… a sort of

    March 19, 2017

    Merleria Livia

    February 14, 2015

    Portrait of a Master luthier

    October 26, 2013
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi

    March 23, 2014 /

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    Why on Earth people, in Italy, still eat junk food?

    January 16, 2013

    The Ferrania Film Series – Episode 1 – Ferrania Orto shot on October/November 2023

    August 7, 2024

    Evolution in Red

    November 20, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Milan,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Walking Table in via Cornaggia

    March 22, 2014 /

    Via Cornaggia in Milan is not a place one usually associates with humour in photography, yet this image carries an almost surreal tone. A man strides down the cobblestone street, carrying a table on his shoulders, its legs pointing skyward like some awkward sculpture. His face is completely obscured, leaving only body language and context to speak for him. The everyday act of transporting furniture becomes, in this frame, an absurd visual gesture. The narrow perspective of the street enhances the composition. The converging lines of the walls and cobbled path guide the eye directly to the man, amplifying his centrality within the scene. The geometry of the table mirrors…

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    Thirthy years behind…

    April 6, 2013

    The dilemma

    January 11, 2013

    The Empty Stage

    November 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Street Markets

    Hard Choice In Quai de la Corse

    March 21, 2014 /

    I made this frame near Île de la Cité, on Quai de la Corse—one of those places where the mundane and the picturesque casually coexist. What first drew my attention wasn’t the postcard rack, but the slight choreography unfolding around it. Two figures—clearly together, maybe tourists or locals revisiting the familiar—stood split by the display, momentarily anonymised by a turnstile of nostalgia. That was the hook: a photo of people concealed by the very thing designed to represent their surroundings. The irony held my attention long enough to lift the camera. I composed the shot with that in mind. The vertical rack bisects the frame precisely, interrupting the couple’s presence…

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    The Sprint Before the Ride

    August 8, 2013

    We Are All Made of Stars

    February 28, 2018

    Knowledge in the Atelier (or: The First Shot of 2026)

    January 1, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography,  Winter

    Is This Photo Illegal?

    March 20, 2014 /

    Yes, if it were taken in Hungary. Against the European Convention of Human Rights, Hungary passed a law that by next March 15 will require any photographer shooting in public space to obtain a signed “model release form”. This provision will be bashed by either the EU Court of Justice or the European Court of Human Rights (for the very same reasons I explained here), but it will take time and – first of all – a photographer that sacrifices himself on the altar of freedom.  

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    A Night at the Opera – Plays and Opera Photography

    December 21, 2024

    Against the Tide

    January 30, 2014

    The Bodyguard in Red

    April 13, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Paris,  People,  Restaurants&Bar,  Winter

    Relaxed Call at Boulevard du Palais

    March 19, 2014 /

    Paris lends itself so well to moments of quiet theatre, and this image captures one of those understated urban vignettes — a waiter leaning against a doorway, mid-call, somewhere between duty and a fleeting pause. The scene’s composition is clean and deliberate. The vertical symmetry of the architecture — the heavy wrought-iron window on the left, the dark panelled doors on the right — creates a structured backdrop that frames the human subject without overpowering him. The soft patina of the stone façade carries a sense of history, its muted tones setting off the crisp whites of the waiter’s apron and shirt. His black vest and bow tie anchor him…

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    Red Cross

    October 26, 2017

    In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works

    April 4, 2021

    Late for Lunch

    March 26, 2014
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Lost in Another World

    March 17, 2014 /

    Bruxelles, late afternoon. The light was fading, but not fast enough to kill the warmth spilling across the stone. I was walking the perimeter of the European Quarter when I caught this boy, not moving, not restless—just elsewhere. Legs crossed, Red Bull in the shade of his knee, a pair of thick-cushioned headphones pulling his attention far from the buses trundling behind him. The city was loud, but he was silent. I framed him against the soft curve of the road, letting the concrete bench anchor the composition. The wall bisects the image cleanly, dividing the raw street texture from his calm, introspective stillness. He became part of the architecture—concrete,…

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    Harley-Davidson: Chrome And Presence

    December 24, 2018

    Wet Socks

    July 19, 2014

    Fishermen in Rome, Again

    November 5, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People

    Stylish

    March 16, 2014 /

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    The Last Puff, Before the Kitchen Opens

    March 6, 2013

    An Open Gate

    January 13, 2015

    Belgian Macarons

    November 2, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Still Standing

    March 15, 2014 /

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    Falling Tree

    May 8, 2014

    A Couple of Windows

    January 5, 2018

    Big Brother Enhanced

    May 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Winter

    Zebra Crossing

    March 14, 2014 /

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    The BatFire

    April 29, 2016

    Portfolio

    February 24, 2014

    The Worst Moment to Fix a Shoe’s Problem

    April 14, 2013
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